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The future probably won’t belong to giant studios alone. And it also won’t belong to prompt spammers flooding timelines with random generations. The people who win will be the ones who combine: • taste • story instinct • editing rhythm • cinematography knowledge • emotional restraint • obsessive iteration The camera is becoming software. But vision still isn’t. reference video from upcoming trailer #VisionOfTheFuture for @XPRIZE @PeterDiamandis

A woman and a boy sit together on a stilt-house dock at dusk, sharing a bowl as the village glows.

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